OSD Students Will

Outcome 1:
Be compassionate and kind.
Board Monitoring Report 6/9/2022

Outcome 2:
Have the academic and life skills to pursue their individual career, civic and educational goals.
Board Monitoring Report 1/27/2022

Outcome 3:
Advocate for the social, physical and mental wellness of themselves and others and be hopeful about the future.
Board Monitoring Report 4/14/2022

Outcome 4:
Have the skills, knowledge and courage to identify and confront personal, systemic and societal bias.
Board Monitoring Report 3/10/2022

Outcome 5:
Discover their passions, be curious and love learning.
Board Monitoring Report 2/10/2022

Outcome 6:
Be critical thinkers who contribute to and collaborate with our local, global and natural world.
Board Monitoring Report 10/26/2021

Centennial School Improvement Plan (2021-22)

Outcome 1: Be compassionate and kind.

  1. Be aware of and appreciate one’s similarities and differences with others.
  2. Listen well and cooperate with others.
  3. Demonstrate awareness of one’s own thoughts and emotions and how they impact behavior.
  4. Express emotions, thoughts and impulses in positive and beneficial ways.
  5. Resolve conflicts and repair relationships.

Metric

Panorama survey in late fall of 2021 and late spring of 2022.

Goal

By June of 2022, 80% of students will demonstrate an awareness of being compassionate and kind, as measured in the Panorama survey in the categories of supportive relationships and positive feelings. 

Action Plan

  • Students will participate in the OSD Panorama SEL Survey in late fall 2021 and late spring of 2022.
  • Each classroom teacher will teach the Second Step curriculum in its entirety.
  • The counselor is utilizing the language and skills taught in Second Step when meeting with students individually and in small groups.
  • Counselor and support staff including paraeducators will hold both targeted small group social skills sessions and drop-in. sessions for lunch buddies focusing on interpersonal skills and compassion.
  • Family liaisons at each building will reach out to students and families to provide support in partnership with counselors and principals.
  • All staff members will use Pride Slips and Positive Office Referrals to reinforce kind/compassionate behavior in the school.
  • Students will fill out “caught being kind” slips as a way to recognize fellow students.

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Outcome 2: Have the academic and life skills to pursue their individual career, civic and educational goals.

  1. Read, write and speak effectively for a wide range of purposes, including the interpretation and analysis of both literary and informational texts.
  2. Know and apply mathematics to a level of fluency that ensures a broad range of post-secondary opportunities and career choices.
  3. Use analytic and scientific principles to draw sound conclusions.
  4. Analyze multiple causal factors that shape major events in history.
  5. Exit with a personalized post-secondary transition plan for work, career and/or college, and complete the first steps toward achieving post-secondary goals before graduation.
  6. Develop and use conceptual understanding, exploring knowledge across a range of disciplines, and engage with issues and ideas that have local and global significance.
  7. Problem solve using both creative and critical thinking skills.
  8. Demonstrate continuous growth across the disciplines to meet or exceed academic learning standards and work toward graduation.
  9. Apply reliable information and systematic decision making to personal financial decisions.

Metric

  • Mathematics:  Bridges Number Corner Check-up as well as the Unit Pre-and-Post-assessments.
  • ELA:  Wonders reading fluency and comprehension assessments.
  • Science:  Foss science journals and spring science fair projects.

Goal

Mathematics

  • Kindergarten: 75% of students will meet the standard on the March Number Corner Assessment rote counting to 60.
  • 1st Grade:  75% of students will meet the standard on the January Number Corner Checkup 2.
  • 2nd Grade:  75% of students will meet the standard on Bridges Unit 6 post-assessment.
  • 3rd Grade:  5% of Third Grade Students will meet the standard in the area of comparing and ordering fractions, as measured by the Bridges Unit 7 Post-Assessment.
  • 4th Grade:  75% of students will meet the standard in the area of comparing and ordering fractions on the  Bridges Unit 7 post-assessment.
  • 5th Grade:  75% of students will meet the standard in the area of adding, subtracting, and multiplying fractions and decimals on the Bridges Unit 7 post-assessment.

ELA

  • Kindergarten:  70% of students will meet the standard on letters and sounds that have been introduced by March.
  • 1st Grade:  75% of students will meet the standard on spring fluency assessment benchmarks according to the Wonders fluency rubric 50 percentile level.
  • 2nd Grade:  75% of students will meet the standard on spring fluency assessment benchmarks according to the Wonders fluency rubric 50 percentile level.
  • 3rd Grade: 75% of Third Grade Students will score at least 70% average on Wonders (bi)weekly assessments, by May 2022.
  • 4th Grade:  75% of 4th-grade students will score at least 80% on Wonders non-fiction comprehension assessments by June 2022.
  • 5th Grade:  75% of 5th-grade students will score at least 80% on Wonders non-fiction comprehension assessments by June 2022.

Science

  • Kindergarten:  All students will show participation in the FOSS animal unit.
  • 1st Grade:  All students will show participation in science through completing entries in their FOSS science journals.
  • 2nd Grade:  All students will show participation in science through completing entries in their FOSS science journals.
  • 3rd Grade: 100% of students will show participation in science investigations.  Evidence for this will include journal entries, models/drawings, hands-on experiments, and focus question answers.
  • 4th Grade:   All students will show participation in science through completing an average of 5 entries per unit in their Science journal.
  • 5th Grade:  90% all 5th-grade students will create a science fair project that investigates a chosen topic.

Action Plan

  • Weekly PLC meetings to anaylze student progress, design and align lessons, and common assessment based on grade level Essential Standards.
  • Dyslexia screeners will take place in the fall to provide baseline data to inform instructional decisions.
  • MAP assessments will take place in late fall (3rd - 5th) winter (all) and spring (all).
  • Classroom differentiation will be formed based on classroom-based assessments and MAP data targeting students below grade level standards and approaching grade level standards.
  • Use of Concept Quest and Beast Academy for differentiation in math. 
  • Special Education and General Education collaboration with a focus on IEP Accommodation in the general education classroom.
  • On-going parent communication via conferences, email, phones and meetings in order to share concerns and determine action plans with families. 
  • Pacific Science Center "Virtual Science on Wheels" will come to Centennial in January 202 for two days to include a whole school assembly, exhibits, and classroom lessons.
  • K-5 Student participation in the virtual STEAM Fair in January 2021.
  • Classroom teachers have access to Mystery Science mini lesson video clips to enhance the core FOSS Science curriculum.
  • OSD Science TOSA and South Sound Green staff members will collaborate to bring quality testing experiences to Centennial beginning in October 2021.
  • Guest speakers from Puget Sound Estuarium.
  • In the fall of 2021, teachers will attend grade-level FOSS kit trainings and teach from the new FOSS kits.
  • Students will have the opportunity to participate in the spring  Science Fair.

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Outcome 3: Advocate for the social, physical and mental wellness of themselves and others and be hopeful about the future.

  1. Communicate effectively.
  2. Develop knowledge and skills to have healthy eating habits, have a healthy body image and access reliable health information and services.
  3. Be physically active and see athletics and exercise as health-enhancing behaviors.
  4. Understand and apply principles of sound mental and emotional health and learn to identify signs of emotional health concerns such as depression, anxiety and suicidal thinking in self and others.
  5. Understand how and when to seek supportive mental and emotional health resources for self and others.
  6. Cultivate healthy relationships that honor each person's personal preferences and boundaries.
  7. Identify and develop personal strengths and interests.
  8. Develop the skills and habits to assess the role of technology and social media in their lives and distinguish between healthy and harmful use.

Metric

Panorama survey in late fall of 2021 and late spring in 2022. 

Goal

By June of 2022, 80% of students will respond favorably when asked about their ability to demonstrate self-efficacy and emotional regulation as measured in the Panorama survey.

Action Plan

  • Students will participate in the OSD Panorama SEL Survey in late fall 2021 and late spring of 2022.
  • On-going parent communication via conferences, email, phones and meetings in order to share concerns and determine action plans with families.
  • All staff will teach and use common self-regulation strategies and language in the classroom (zones of regulation, calm down corner, relaxation techniques, positive self-talk, classroom meetings, Second Step lessons/ language).
  • Counselor connections:  individual support, small group support based on common needs and coffee with the counselor as a way for families to connect.
  • A family liaison will partner with the school counselor, Tier 2 Teams, BHR, and other local community-based resources to support the mental health and well-being of students.
  • Behavior Technicians will continue to use CICO (check-in, check-out) system.
  • All elementary schools will have access to additional PE classes with the increase in specialist time.
  • All elementary teacher-librarians will teach Common Sense Media focusing on media safety and media balance.

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Outcome 4: Have the skills, knowledge and courage to identify and confront personal, systemic and societal bias.

  1. Develop an appreciation of world cultures, which may include the understanding of the basic structure of another world language.
  2. Be well versed in local, national and world history and understand how prejudice, racism and xenophobia have contributed to conflict.
  3. Demonstrate the ability to recognize that biased attitudes expressed consistently over time gradually distort perceptions until stereotypes and myths about people different from oneself are accepted as reality.
  4. Empower themselves to interrupt discriminatory remarks and attitudes.
  5. Evaluate the significance and dependability of information used to support positions.
  6. Analyze the validity, reliability and credibility of information from a variety of primary and secondary sources while researching an issue or event.

Metric

Panorama survey in late fall of 2021 and late spring in 2022.

Goal

In partnership with OSD families, 80% of families will respond favorably regarding students learning about, discussing and confronting issues of race, ethnicity and culture in school as measured by the Panorama Survey in the cultural awareness and action section by late spring of 2022. 

Action Plan

  • Families will participate in the OSD Panorama SEL Survey in late fall 2021 and late spring of 2022.
  • Equity Teams meet routinely throughout the year in order to address site-specific needs such as PBIS recognition and homework.
  • Land acknowledgments are incorporated into morning announcements.
  • Teachers will teach grade level Since Time Immemorial curriculum.
  • Teachers provide opportunities for class discussions when events arise in the community related to major news events and will communicate topics of conversations with families.
  • Continue to diversify library collections to better represent all students and cultures.
  • 4th and 5th-grade students will participate in the Spring OSPI CBA.

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Outcome 5: Discover their passions, be curious and love learning.

  1. Broaden their perspectives and seek out various opportunities to explore new ideas, particularly those areas that are unfamiliar or uncomfortable to find their interests.
  2. Experience failure, setbacks and disappointments as an expected and honored part of learning.
  3. Understand and demonstrate the value of service in their community and learning by doing.
  4. Pursue creative and artistic opportunities as a vocation and/or a form of lifelong enrichment.

Metric

Exit tickets are completed by students at the end of the service event. 

Goal

100% of grade levels will provide opportunities for students to participate in a service project by June, 2022.

Action Plan

  • Schools/Grade levels/teachers choose at least one service project to complete during the year.  
  • Work in partnership with families and community members to complete service project(s).
  • Possible options could include Volunteer work at Freedom Farmers, Valentines for Vets, food bank, canned food drive, volunteering at the food bank.
  • Highlight and celebrate examples of students providing service through newsletters and social media.

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Outcome 6: Be critical thinkers who contribute to and collaborate with our local, global and natural world.

  1. Participate on teams and know the power of teamwork.
  2. Demonstrate the ability to engage in inclusive problem solving.
  3. Advocate for and contribute to local, regional or global improvement by utilizing natural resources in an efficient, sustainable way.
  4. Use digital tools to constructively learn from and connect with people and communities around the world.
  5. Gather, interpret and present information in culturally responsive ways.

Metric

Exit tickets completed by students at the end of both water quality testing events.

Goal

In partnership with South Sound Green, 100% of 5th-grade students will participate in water quality testing both in the fall of 2021 and the spring of 2022.

Action Plan

  • OSD Science TOSA and South Sound Green staff members will collaborate to bring quality testing experiences to Centennial beginning in October 2021.
  • Guest speakers from Puget Sound Estuarium.
  • In the fall of 2021, teachers will attend grade-level FOSS kit training and teach from the new FOSS kits.
  • Students will have the opportunity to participate in the spring  Science Fair.

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